Across
- 1. This pine has two needles per fascicle.
- 3. This daisy is a noxious weed.
- 5. This noxious weed has leaves like a dog's tongue.
- 6. This grass has fuzzy auricles.
- 7. This biennial thistle has a nodding head.
- 8. This large shrub has bark that easily pulls off and shreds,
- 9. This grass has fine, rolled leaves and a branches inflorescence.
- 14. This riparian tree is the tallest in our streamside canopy.
- 15. This conifer is deciduous.
- 17. This spurge can eject seeds up to 15 feet away.
- 22. This fuzzy noxious weed can kill fish.
- 23. This conifer grows at high elevation and has stomatal bands in the upper and lower side of its needles.
- 25. This riparian tree has bronze bark with long horizontal lenticels.
- 26. This thistle is perennial and spreads by seeds and rhizomes.
- 28. The genus for knapweed.
- 30. This common shrub has hollow stems, opposite leaves, and white berries.
- 32. Genus for the hawkweeds.
- 34. This pine has five needles per fascicle.
- 37. This riparian shrub has opposite leaves with arcuate veins that bend toward the tip of the leaf.
- 38. This biennial thistle grows in large stands on the SCC campus.
- 39. This tree has white bark that doesn't shred easily and leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze.
- 41. This noxious weed has opposite leaves that are perforated.
- 42. This conifer has a droopy leader and small needles of two different sizes.
- 43. This noxious weed has palmately compound leaves.
- 44. This noxious weed is all bones. It's leaves are reduced and it has small yellow flowers.
- 45. This shrub has opposite leaves, tiny glands at the edges of its broadly serrate margins, and four sepals and four petals on its fragrant blossoms.
- 46. This flowering perennial has soft sage-green leaves shaped like an arrow.
- 47. This shrub has alternate leaves, berries that are high in tannins and dry your mouth out, and tiny paired glands on the leaf petiole.
Down
- 2. This noxious weed has pinnately compound leaves and pops tires.
- 4. This large, common shrub has alternate leaves that are serrate above the middle. New growth is usually reddish purple.
- 10. This large willow often has stipules.
- 11. This medium to small willow is our principal upland willow species and has obovate leaves.
- 12. This low evergreen has sharp, spiny leaf margins and berries the color of purple grapes.
- 13. This noxious weed has squeaky leaves and a pretty yellow flower.
- 16. This shrub is armed with thick thorns.
- 18. This conifer has pungent, 4-angles needles the surround the branch - ouch!
- 19. This flat-leaved aquatic plant has an inflorescence that looks like a hot dog.
- 20. Rushes are round. Genus of the rushes.
- 21. This large shrub has big cascading flowers that dry out and remain year round.
- 24. This very small shrub has alternate leaves and a flat-topped inflorescence.
- 27. This conifer has sharp buds and it's cones trap mice.
- 29. This evergreen groundcover has alternate, obovate leaves.
- 31. This riparian tree has white bark that peels back easily like paper.
- 33. This grass has an unbranched inflorescence and grows in large bunches.
- 35. This shrub has alternate leaves, three veins from the base of each leaf and is delicious to browsing ungulates.
- 36. This pine has three needles per fascicle.
- 40. This conifer has shreddy bark and loves the damp shade.